If you must ask for permission, it isn’t a right. It’s a privilege. And if you take a look around, every single pursuit that is supposed to be a fundamental right has been taken from us and turned to a subservient “license” or “permit.” —Jack Lloyd

If you must ask for permission, it isn’t a right. It’s a privilege. And if you take a look around, every single pursuit that is supposed to be a fundamental right has been taken from us and turned to a subservient “license” or “permit.” —Jack Lloyd
Close your eyes and imagine a world full of self-replicating little Stalins.
Now open your eyes. You live in that world. It’s called social justice and the little Stalins are SJWs. SJW: Stalin, Just Weirder. —Michael Rectenwald
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. —Walter Williams
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule, but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. —Lew Rockwell
I am a very peaceful man. I love people and I am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. —Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee 2004)
A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Individual Rights are not subject to a public vote. —Ayn Rand
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. —Milton Friedman
The two major political parties are so filled to the brim with anti-constitution and ant-liberty sociopaths, that I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘lesser of two evils.’ They’re both thoroughly evil. —Michael Boldin (Tenth Amendment Center)
The first job of an economist is to tell governments what they cannot do. —Ludwig von Mises
You can become president with no contact with economic reality. —Thomas Sowell